One of the things I despise the most is the praise of ignorance, especially when deployed for populistic reasons, for elites to show they are ’normal people’. I almost walked out of a concert when the rocker on stage proudly affirmed his intention to keep writing three-chord songs for the rest of his already multi-decade-long careers, despite the critics encouraging him to evolve. There’s nothing wrong with liking simple things or staying in the comfort zone, but I disagree on making it a virtue.

I wanted to find a way to be more ‘focused on the moment’, especially to fight a tendency to think too much about work in my spare time, so I tried to notice things around me, and document them.
I didn’t have the perseverance of finding a photo for every day, but it was a good exercise.

My weekly roundups haven’t been fully horror-centric for a while, so please enjoy the symptoms of me wanting to watch something strong to keep work-related thoughts at bay.

I am not in a relationship at this time in my life, and although I don’t subscribe to the idea that ’loneliness is awesome’ (as I read recently… unfortunately, I couldn’t find again that post), most films I watched this week depicted couple relationships in such an extreme bad way, that made me feel a bit less eager to change my status.

I know I can be harsh when I talk about a film, and I feel guilty about judging the work of the many people that put their dedication and effort into it. Things can go wrong in anybody’s job, and for a number of reasons.
In some of these instances, it may turn out that the film is the only one the director, or the writer, ever made. Or the one that ended a promising career. In these cases, I always wonder what happened; did the person realise the job was not for them? Did they keep their passion but frustratingly weren’t given another chance?

This episode of Weekly visions is brought to you by my irritation at learning that Damian McCarthy’s Hokum will not be released in cinemas in Belgium, so I will have to wait until at some point it comes to VOD.

After more than two years of preparing these weekly round-ups, I’ve found myself going back often to past editions to check what exactly my feelings about films were shortly after watching them. It’s interesting that, quite often, I find that my current recollection diverges from my thoughts at the time.
To make this re-discovery easier, I have automated the creation of an index where all the films are sorted alphabetically and linked to their relevant post.

In my end-of-year roundup of the software I use, I mentioned that Lire was my RSS feed reader of choice, because despite a few defects, it allowed me to view posts in their natural environment, that is, by opening a web view on the author’s website; I prefer this way, to enjoy the blog’s personality, instead of seeing all posts reduced to the same flat-and-simple formatting.

Indecision was the real winner this week, as I started watching multiple films and abandoned them in impatience. I ever get to finish Sisu 2, you’ll be the first to know.